I’m so very fortunate. For damn near the whole of a month, I’ll be exploring this great country with my wife and two daughters in a sweet 2015 Shoreline Blue Toyota Sienna LTD Premium. It’s an appropriately spacious vehicle for which to traverse a big ol’ land as a family. […]
There are many ways to make friends in this world. Buying someone a beer or a good cup of joe is often a quick way to endear yourself to a stranger. Being a thoughtful co-worker also tends to increase your friendship circle exponentially. One method that might not rank high […]
Summer 2015. The summer of a most epic American adventure. The summer of the cross country road trip. The summer of 3 weeks spent in cities, towns, forests, canyons, National Parks, amusement parks, mountains, and lakes; 3 weeks at museums, concerts, baseball games, and zipline courses. The summer of 3200 […]
There’s a place you’ve gotta see in this country. It’s a lake inside a volcano with an island inside of it with another volcano on it, and it is even more remarkable than it sounds. You’ve gotta see Crater Lake in southern Oregon once in your life at least. You’ve […]
Much love to for providing me this platform to share a very personal story of how we choose to travel as a family. Please read on! There’s this thing we do when we travel together as a family, only, it’s not really a thing, it’s more a philosophical game plan, […]
I’m over on Family Vacation Critic, a fun subsidiary site of Trip Advisor, talking about why my family traveled to Portland, Oregon last summer during our 2-week Pacific Northwest road trip adventure. It wasn’t the doughnuts, although they were delish, and it wasn’t Portlandia (I still haven’t seen that show), […]
Do you have a family travel bucket list? Of course you do! Even if not formally written down, there are places within the U.S. you long to visit. Places you see when you close your eyes and wish upon a star to be…anywhere else. I bet I can name a […]
I cannot personally vouch for the accommodations at Vdara — although the suites look world class (see below) and the lofts read as a wonderland of vacation bliss — but having spent ample time inside ESPA at Vdara and outside on the open-air patio lounge of Vice Versa, I can […]
